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The Battle of Britain Five Months That Changed History, May—October 1940 by James Holland (z-lib.org).epub

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‘On political grounds…’ WSC, p. 95

‘I don’t know what day…’ Bethke, diary, 30/5/1940

‘The black smoke rose…’ Hugh Dundas, Flying Start, p. 30

‘Where the hell were you?’ Ibid., p. 32

‘The vessel didn’t catch fire…’ Herrmann, Eagle’s Wings, p. 60

‘I’d made it…’ Ibid., p. 61

‘We saw a piece…inside the boat’ IWM 021116

‘Things are getting…’ Gardner, Evacuation from Dunkirk, Appendix R

‘There was no thought…soldiers panic’ IWM 021116

‘BEF evacuated…’ Gardner, Evacuation from Dunkirk, Appendix T

Part II: Respite

22. What Next?

‘We silenced all six…’ Bartley, Smoke Trails in the Sky, p. 16

‘but the wretch’ John Dundas papers, letter, 9/6/1940

‘In our view therefore…to the imminent danger’ TNA CAB 80/12

‘miracle of deliverance…never surrender’ WS, 4/6/1940

‘The House was deeply moved’ Nicolson, HND, 4/6/1940

‘It was a magnificent oration’ Colville, The Fringes of Power, 4/6/1940

‘I thought it was…’ MO diarist 53967

‘The French are hysterical…’ Chamberlain, Diary Letters, 2/6/1940

‘The British Army?…it will be too late’ TNA WO 208/4340

‘Had I had these four divisions…’ Cited in Irving, Göring, p. 92

‘Captain, your breakfast’ Luck, Panzer Commander, p. 43

‘And what do you command?…’ Cited in Blaxland, Destination Dunkirk,

p. 374

‘Dearest Lu…’ Liddell Hart (ed.), The Rommel Papers, p. 66

23. The End in France

‘One through the calf…’ Frank, Enemy Submarine, p. 89

‘Hit almost amidships…’ Ibid., p. 92

‘All that I found on my return…’ Alanbrooke, War Diaries, p. 74

‘Winston is justifiably…’ Colville, The Fringes of Power, 6/6/1940

‘It is embarrassingly…’ Engel, At the Heart of the Reich, 10/6/1940

‘People who go to Italy…’ Colville, The Fringes of Power, 10/6/1940

‘You mark my words…’ MO diarist 53967

‘To say that I was…’ Donnelly, The Whitley Boys, p. 133

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